VIKING SITHRIC SILVER PENNY - Hiberno Norse c. 995 - 1020 AD
Obverse: Draped bust left of Irish style. In the name of AEthelred. Legend reads " EDELRED REX AIGMNO"
Reverse: Long cross voided with each limb ended in three crescents, pellet in centre. Text around BIRHTIOD MO RINI (Byrhtnoth Moneyer of Winchester).
Obverse: Draped bust left of Irish style. In the name of AEthelred. Legend reads " EDELRED REX AIGMNO"
Reverse: Long cross voided with each limb ended in three crescents, pellet in centre. Text around BIRHTIOD MO RINI (Byrhtnoth Moneyer of Winchester).
Obverse: Draped bust left of Irish style. In the name of AEthelred. Legend reads " EDELRED REX AIGMNO"
Reverse: Long cross voided with each limb ended in three crescents, pellet in centre. Text around BIRHTIOD MO RINI (Byrhtnoth Moneyer of Winchester).
Sitric Cáech or Sihtric Cáech or Sigtrygg Gále, was a Hiberno-Scandinavian Viking leader who ruled Dublin and then Viking Northumbria in the early 10th century